Selling the American Way: U.S. Propaganda and the Cold War

by Laura A. Belmonte

Book Overview

In 1955, the United States Information Agency published a lavishly illustrated booklet called My America. Assembled ostensibly to document "the basic elements of a free dynamic society," the booklet emphasized cultural diversity, political freedom, and social mobility and made no mention of McCarthyism or the Cold War. Though hyperbolic, My America was, as Laura A. Belmonte shows, merely one of hundreds of pamphlets from this era...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812240820
• ISBN13: 9780812240825
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"